#25 French accented characters not converted correctly

[Peter Janes]

While LibreOffice and writerperfect (wpd2odt) can both import/convert legacy WordPerfect for DOS files (possibly 4.2) they have problems with French characters. Looking at some files I can see these incorrect characters, but there are others I haven't been able to find (e.g. the c cedilla):

Φ for è
Θ for é
Ω for ê
α for à
⌠ for ô
• for ù
√ for û

(I'll see if I can get approval to attach a sample file, if it's needed.)

[Edward Mendelson]

You are right. Libwpd contains a WP4.x parser, but it doesn't seem to handle extended characters correctly, and the file libwpd_internal.cpp has a table of WP42 extended characters, but wpd2odt and LibreOffice do not (as you say) seem to use it correctly. The table seems to be correct, but it seems that wpd2odt doesn't correctly recognize WP4.2 files - and that isn't surprising, because the only way to do so would be to scan the file for some specific codes that may not be there at all.

[Edward Mendelson]

I finally got around to filing a bug with LibreOffice, where it's most likely to get attention:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158793